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Facts about Caspase-2.
Associates with PIDD1 and CRADD to form the PIDDosome, a complex that triggers CASP2 and triggers apoptosis in response to genotoxic stress (PubMed:15073321). .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | CASP2 |
| Uniprot: | P42575 |
| Entrez: | 835 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| peptidase C14A family |

caspase-2; CASP2; CASP-2; caspase 2, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase; Caspase2; Caspase-2; ICH1; ICH-1; NEDD2; NEDD-2; PPP1R57
Mass (kDA):
50.685 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 7q34 |
| Sequence: | 7; NC_000007.14 (143288351..143307696) |
Expressed at higher levels in the embryonic lung, liver and kidney than in the heart and brain. In adults, higher level expression is seen in the placenta, lung, kidney, and pancreas than in the heart, brain, liver and skeletal muscle.





PMID: 8087842 by Wang L., et al. Ich-1, an Ice/ced-3-related gene, encodes both positive and negative regulators of programmed cell death.
PMID: 11156409 by Droin N., et al. Identification of a caspase-2 isoform that behaves as an endogenous inhibitor of the caspase cascade.
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